[Doc-SIG] "What's New" for all versions

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Oct 11 02:05:09 CEST 2008


Georg Brandl wrote:
> Martin Blais schrieb:
>> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:12:50 -0500, "Robert Kern"
>> <robert.kern at gmail.com> said:
>>> Whenever I have to look for when a feature was introduced, I go looking
>>> at the 
>>> "What's New in Python 2.x" pages. Since the documentation for Python 2.x
>>> only 
>>> contains the "What's New in Python 2.x" and none of the earlier parts,
>>> this 
>>> becomes fairly tedious if I guess the version wrong. I'd really like to
>>> see all 
>>> of the older "What's New" pages in the current Python version's
>>> documentation. 
>>> There should be a single ToC page collating the ToCs for all of the
>>> "What's New" 
>>> versions. I don't think it should replace the current ToC, but I think it
>>> should 
>>> exist.
>>>
>>> I don't have time to work on this immediately, so I thought I would throw
>>> it out 
>>> there to see if there's any interest.
>> +1 on Robert's idea. 
>> I always end up bricolating some summary of the new changes for myself.
>> It would be nice if it were just there.
> 
> I've now changed the templates a bit to make all "What's new" documents
> accessible. This should be live on docs.python.org soon.

That's better, thank you! Can you easily put the ToCs for all of the What's New 
pages onto that page? It would make skimming and searching even easier.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco



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